Hooked on Behind the Bench!
So excited to share Behind the Bench in the MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop!
Dr. Danni Angelo is the team physician for the Clarington Quakes hockey team. She’s worked hard to earn the players’ respect, but the new coach, Trey Mason, is stirring things up, and Danni’s worried her job may be in jeopardy.
Trey finds Danni…distracting. Beauty, brains, and sexy moves on the ice have him uncomfortably attracted. He’s the new guy on the block. He has a reputation to build and a standard to set. The last thing he needs is a complication.
When the team spirals out of control and Danni and Trey get caught up in a drug scandal, things heat up on and off the ice. It’s a whole new game plan…Behind the Bench.
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Enjoy an excerpt from Behind the Bench~
Danni watched the tail end of the in-house broadcast of the news conference and flicked off the screen. How could you not be impressed with that? Trey Mason was confident and eloquent, and spoke in a relaxed and engaging way. The beach-bum blond hair, sculpted cheekbones, and easy smile would win over the non-hockey fans, and his passion and knowledge of the game would impress the followers. He had it all, and landing in a town like Clarington must be a dream come true. For him.
And a nightmare for her.
She had worked part-time as the team physician for the Clarington Earthquakes, Quakes for short, for the past three years. It had taken time to gain the players’ confidence. Being a female physician for a men’s hockey team hadn’t been easy, but she’d built a solid professional relationship.
She loved everything about the job – the energy of the games, working with high-level athletes, and a new clinic in a state-of-the-art arena. She certainly didn’t want it to change because of a new head coach.
Trey Mason couldn’t fire her. Theoretically. That would be up to the owners of the team. He could, however, make her life miserable. And if there was friction between them, it would affect the players, and ultimately, what affected the players influenced the owners. There were two other physicians who shared the job with her and a few more who would be eager to take it on.
He, on the other hand, could be set for a long run if he delivered half of what he’d promised today. She certainly hadn’t seen any charm when he’d walked into the pressroom, and yet it came out in spades when he spoke. She could only hope that her initial impression had been wrong, because between the two of them, it wasn’t likely that he’d be leaving any time soon. Bottom line – she needed to suck it up and get along with the new guy. She sighed. She hated sucking up. She’d thought she was done with that. Apparently not. She shook her head and gritted her teeth. Time to smile and play nice.
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Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 11:22 am |
Danni comes across as a strong, no-nonsense woman. I really like her, just from this brief snippet.
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 8:28 pm |
Thanks very much! Thanks for stopping by! 😀
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 5:37 pm |
I love hockey (Canucks fan) and this seems like a different slant on the game, with plenty of conflict built-in.
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 7:09 pm |
Been there done that with sucking up. Sucking up sucks. ;o
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 9:36 pm |
The excerpt sounds like she’s borrowing trouble, but there’s a pragmatic element to her speculation as well: what will she need to do to survive and even thrive with the change in team leadership?
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 at 10:44 pm |
I hate having to suck up, too. This snippet gives me lots of sympathy for Danni.